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Richard Walker

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Categories: Education, Politicians

rwalker.jpgRichard L. Walker, a noted scholar of Asian politics and the former ambassador to South Korea, died on July 22 of cancer. He was 81.
Walker’s interest in the Far East began in his early 20s when he studied Chinese languages at the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II, he served as an interpreter at Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in the Pacific Theater of Operations. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War, and worked in East Asia on numerous occasions for the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency.
Walker earned a master’s degree in Far Eastern and Russian studies and a doctorate in international relations at Yale University, where he became a professor of international studies. In 1961, Walker founded the Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Under his guidance, it became a respected research center. The Institute was later renamed in his honor.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Walker as the U.S. ambassador to South Korea in 1981. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, and served five years in the post, longer than any other American diplomat.

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John Eisenberg

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Categories: Education, Scientists, Writers/Editors

Dr. John F. Eisenberg, a world-renowned expert of animal behavior and evolution, died on July 6 of renal cancer. He was 68.
Eisenberg started learning about mammals in childhood. As a boy living in Washington state, Eisenberg trapped and studied the rodents that lived in the area. After graduating from Washington State University and the University of California, Berkeley, Eisenberg spent many years studying mammals at the National Zoo.
Eisenberg also taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Florida, wrote over 150 articles on ecology and animal biology and published several books on mammals including the influential text, “The Mammalian Radiations: An Analysis of Trends in Evolution, Adaptation and Behavior.”

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Richard Newman

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Richard Newman, a well-respected scholar of black studies, died July 7 of a brain tumor. He was 73.
Newman taught at Boston and Columbia universities before taking a job as the director of research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African-American Research at Harvard University.
Newman, the son of conservative Republicans who later earned the nickname “America’s chief Negro-ologist,” wrote essays, books and bibliographies. When asked why a white man would be so interested in African-American history, Newman would reply, ”Would I have to be a 16th-century English woman to study Elizabeth I?”

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Carl Kreitzberg

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Categories: Education, Scientists

To help scientists better forecast how much snow will fall during a nor’easter, Carl W. Kreitzberg led a team of researchers right into the heart of one.
Kreitzberg’s interest in weather patterns developed when he flew crop dusters as a teenager. He earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology and a doctorate in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington. He later became a seaplane pilot, a flight instructor and a professor of atmospheric science at Drexel University.
In the 1980s, Kreitzberg was named associate director of the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones Over the Atlantic project. His job was to take a team of scientists into the heart of a winter storm, just as it intensified, to test new meteorological equipment. Kreitzberg also studied how storms formed off the Atlantic Coast and researched new ways to forecast flash floods and acid rain.
Kreitzberg died on Thursday of brain cancer. He was 66.

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I. Bernard Cohen

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I. Bernard Cohen, a Harvard scholar who published 20 books and 150 articles, died June 20. Cause of death was not released. He was 89.
Cohen joined the Harvard University faculty as an instructor in physics in 1942. He taught classes for more than four decades before retiring as a professor emeritus of the history of science.
Throughout his teaching career, Cohen constantly published his writing. He was best known as an expert on the subject of Isaac Newton. In 1957, Cohen decided to publish a comprehensive edition of Newton’s work in Latin. “Principia Mathematica” was finally finished in 1972; the 974-page, English translation was published in 1999.
Cohen’s final book, “The Triumph of Numbers,” was mailed to his publisher, W.W. Norton, two weeks ago.

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